Governor's Office of Planning and Research. 2017

As part of the EO B-30-15 Guidance, the Technical Advisory Group that helped to develop this guidance created an Equity Checklist that can be used alongside any decision making process to ensure that plans and investments identify and … protect the State’s most vulnerable populations.

Urban Sustainability Directors Network. 2017

This document provides guidance to local governments in designing and implementing a more inclusive, equitable planning process. It provides guidance on how to address equity issues with specific adaptation solutions, tactics for inclusive … community engagement, and on how to address the root causes of inequities in climate risk.

Bay Localize. 2013

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This report presents a work plan for regional agencies to partner with community groups on climate adaptation, and support local governments in doing so. It also presents parallel recommendations for funders and community groups. The work … plan was designed to provide information and consultation to help to fully integrate social equity and environmental justice issues into Bay Area adaptation planning.

OEHHA. 2017

Data, tools, and research

CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology used to help identify communities disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution and with population characteristics that make them more sensitive to pollution. The CalEnviroScreen is … often used by the State to prioritize funding opportunities.

Public Health Alliance of Southern California. 2017

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Data, tools, and research

The California Healthy Places Index (HPI) is an interactive online data and GIS mapping tool that allows users to easily visualize the social and economic conditions that shape health in each neighborhood in California. HPI is validated … with life expectancy and provides census tract rankings across the state. As of 2017, the Healthy Places Index platform also includes climate change indicators. This tool provides graphic overlays of climate risks, vulnerabilities and indicators of adaptive capacity, along with the healthy places index score, and other key decision support layers. HPI moves data into action by providing policy briefs outlining best practices to address risks associated with climate indicators.

California Department of Public Health. 2015

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Plan or strategy

This is the first biennial report of the Office of Health Equity (OHE), established in 2012. Refer to this report to ensure that your adaptation efforts promote health equity and enhance the resilience of vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

California Department of Public Health. 2018

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Planning and policy guidance

The Climate Change and Health Equity Program (CCHEP) embeds health and equity in California climate change planning, and embeds climate change and equity in public health planning. CCHEP works with local, state, and national partners to … assure that climate change mitigation and adaptation activities have beneficial effects on health while not exacerbating already existing unfair and preventable differences in health status of some groups (health inequities).

Governor's Office of Planning and Research. 2018

Planning and policy guidance

The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, with input from the ICARP Technical Advisory Council, developed this resource guide as a starting point for practitioners to use when first considering how to define vulnerable communities … in an adaptation context. The document includes the ICARP Technical Advisory Council’s definition of climate-vulnerable communities, a summary of existing statewide assessment tools that can be used to identify vulnerable communities in a climate adaptation context, additional indicators that could be used to assess underlying vulnerability on a case-by-case basis, and a list of process guides that can serve to aid agencies undertaking efforts to define vulnerable communities.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 2015

Data, tools, and research

This document provides a sample list of indicators and/or measures of vulnerability and resilience in terms of infrastructure, community and population characteristics, systems, policies, programs and services, protocols , and governance and … decision making. The purpose is to provide a guide to localities to enable them to integrate an equity lens as they seek to build resilience in designing adaptation plans.

California Natural Resources Agency. 2018

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Project or Example

California state agencies collaborated to compile each of these examples, associated with Safeguarding California's 2018 update, to show how California is preparing for and adjusting to various extreme events brought on by climate change. … Each of these examples highlights unique strategies, funded by the state, to combat and adapt to the effects of climate change. The examples are tagged with icons from the Safeguarding California Report, classifying stories by sector. The Low Income Weatherization Program (LIWP)-solar program works with the Single Family Affordable Solar Homes Program (SASH) on providing rebates and installing solar power for economically and environmentally disadvantaged communities.